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Video Blips: Syndicate, Yakuza: Dead Souls, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 2, 2011
1 min

For those late-night rendezvous with your corporate rival's security force, nothing delivers a gentle appreciation of their efforts quite like a 6,000 RPM minigun....

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Skyrim development tools being handed to gamers

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 2, 2011
1 min

Any PC gamers interested in playing with Bethesda Softworks’ development tools, as used to create their hit game Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will get their...

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With 10M players a day, Zynga’s CityVille is about to hit its one-year anniversary

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 2, 2011
1 min

Zynga‘s CityVille turns one tomorrow and it’s still the No. 1 game on Facebook. With more than 10 million daily active users, the game...

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South Park RPG? Yes — Matt Stone & Trey Parker to collaborate with THQ, Obsidian on new game

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
1 min

The foul-mouthed residents of South Park are coming soon to the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in a new role-playing game from publisher...

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Zynga: Beyond the IPO

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
6 min

Three years ago, Mark Pincus told me that he was going to make Zynga more valuable than EA within five years. It took him...

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Japanese PSP-to-Vita transfer program has limited support from major game publishers

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
2 min

Sony today revealed an initial list of retail PSP titles that will be transferable to Japanese Vita systems for a fee via a download...

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Former BioWare/Pandemic boss raises $15M for mobile-web gaming studio

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
3 min

Rumble Entertainment, a new mobile and browser-based game developer and publisher, announced today that it has raised $15 million in a first round of...

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Rovio cracks nut market with new pistachio-branded Angry Birds game

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
2 min

The newest version of mega-popular game franchise Angry Birds isn’t a downloadable mobile app, but rather a web-based promotion built around California nut producer...

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Ogmento launches NBA augmented reality basketball game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 1, 2011
2 min

Ogmento, a maker of mobile augmented reality games, announced its new NBA: King of the Court game today. The game was made in partnership...

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The zCloud revisited: lessons from Zynga’s public-private cloud experience

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 1, 2011
3 min

Recently, we were proud to publicly unveil the private cloud computing infrastructure that we use to scale our social games — infrastructure that we...

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